Keg or analogous package



(No Model.)

I. H. WAITE. KEG OR ANALOGOUS PACKAGE.

No. 519,486. Patented May 8, 1894.

WITNESSES: INVENTORt gg. I 2M $4M 0M 0% A ATTORNEY UNITED STATES FRANK H. WAITE, on

HOLLEY, NEW YORK.

KEG OR ANALOGOUS PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,486, dated May 8, 1894.

Application filed June 16, 1893.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, FRANK H. WAITE, of Holley,in the county of Orleans, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Kegs or Analogous Packages, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the protection from injury or breakage of kegs and barrels, and has more particularly reference to such packages formed of glass.

The invention is fullyillustrated in the anneXed drawings, in which Figure l is a side View of a keg embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the naked keg, showing the grooves for retaining the jacket thereon, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the keg with the jacket applied thereto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

C- represents the keg, or barrel which may be of any suitable material. Small kegs however, I prefer to form in one piece of glass, and in the'bung a-, and faucethole bthereof I secure the bushings cc'- of metal or other suitable material to relieve the keg from the strain incident chine portions thereof, and with longitudinal grooves -ee which intersect said circumferential grooves. The grooves e intersect with the intermediate grooves d, and the grooves e with the end or chine grooves d and the intermediate grooves d at a' point midway between the grooves e. v

-D denotes the protective jacket which is composed of either rubber or other suit- Serlal No. 477,806. (No model.)

able material to form cushioned bearingson the exterior of the keg. Said jacket is of ment of the aforesaid grooves in which the jacket is seated and thus retained in its requisite position on the keg. The jacket is of sufficient thickness to project from the sides and ends of the keg and thereby protect said keg from injury or breakage by violent,contact with hard surfaces.

The chines being the weakest parts of the keg or barrel, require special protection, and this is obtained by making the end grooves,

c Z'-d'- in the outer edges of the chines and seating in said grooves the end-rings of the jacket. Said rings projecting from the ends of the chines and cushioning the same afford the necessary protection. The said 7 end bands are retained in the grooves by the longitudinal bands of the jacket connecting said end bands to the central bands which are securely seated in the grooves 'd-d 'in the central portion of the bulge of the keg or barrel 7 What I claim as my invention isskeleton shape corresponding to the arrange- The combination with a glass keg having and the ends of the barrel and longitudinalbars corresponding in position with and adapted. to be seated in the grooves e and e and connecting the said rings together, substantially as described.

In testimonywhereof I havehereunto signed my name this 31st day of May, 1893.

FRANK H. WAITE. Witnesses:

JOHN N. DRAKE, A. K. FRANKLIN. 

